The history of the courts and of judicial procedure during the principate is closely parallel to that of the government as a whole.
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Principate
//ˈpɹɪns.əˌpeɪt//
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The transition from republic to Principate brought a new and potent factor into the legal picture of the Roman state, the princeps or emperor.
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1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317, The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.
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In the introductory chapter I had already started to examine how Tacitus' designation of the Augustan regime as a versus status potentially draws a line of continuity between the principate and the civil wars which that regime claims to have resolved.
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